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Pros:

First three ingredients are named meat products

Cons:

Minimum acceptable meat content

The first three ingredients in the food are named meat products. The first is chicken inclusive of water content. Once that is removed as it must be to make a dry product, the ingredient will weight around 20% of its wet weight. It is thus unlikely that it is truely the first ingredient in the food, but would be more accurately placed further down the ingredient list. Since it is followed by two meat meal ingredients, this does not detract too much from our confidence in the meat content of the food. We note the inclusion of fish meal but do not locate anywhere on the manufacturer site a statement guaranteeing the use of ethoxyquin-free protein ingredients in the food. Ethoxyquin is a chemical preservative commonly added to fish ingredients and that is banned or heavily restricted in human food because it is believed to be carcinogenic.

The next five ingredients are all grains, including two forms of rice. This spltting of rice ingredients does suggest that the rice content may be higher than indicated, and in any case four grain products ahead of the fat content is suggestive of a grain heavy food. With potatoes also listed in the primary ingredients, this product would seem to be lower in meat content than first glance at the ingredient list would suggest.

In minor ingredients, tomato pomace is primarily filler and we would prefer to see the use of whole eggs rather than egg product in the food. There is a range of fruits/vegetables and a good range of probiotics.